COSmIC Facility Group to Receive NASA Honor Award
The COSmIC Facility Group at Ames Research Center will receive the NASA Honor Award for Group Achievement. The upcoming award ...
Vanessa Polito contributes to new understanding of solar flares
A paper featuring Vanessa Polito's work on solar flares was published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. Polito is a co-author on the study, which is a collaboration with lead author Chengcai Shen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA),…
BAERI and NASA Participate at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Over 25 BAERI and NASA Ames Science Directorate researchers presented in person or virtually at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans, LA., December 13-17, 2021. AGU is the leading forum for advancing Earth and space science…
BAERI researcher Nikki Tulley’s work highlighted at VP Harris’ inaugural Space Council meeting
On December 1st, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris chaired the Biden administration's first meeting of the National Space Council. Biden’s Space Council is the largest in history — new members include Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Agriculture…
BAERI’s Navdeep Panesar helps launch citizen science project to study the sun
Citizen science projects are nothing new for BAERI researchers, whether it's teaching the public to identify transiting exoplanets (Planet Hunters Coffee Chat), or building an iPad game that helps classify the world's coral reefs (NeMO-Net). We can now add one…
The Indigenous People’s Capacity Building Initiative featured in The Hill
In 2017, BAERI's Cindy Schmidt launched NASA's Indigenous People's Capacity Building Initiative, a program that partners with indigenous communities to give them the technical training to use remote sensing tools for tribal land and resource management. The partnership and its…
StoryCorps features collection of scientist interviews created by BAERI team
StoryCorps, the award-winning nonprofit dedicated to preserving and sharing humanity's stories, is currently featuring Share your Science, a new collection of interviews with NASA Ames Research Center scientists, created by BAER Institute's Kassie Perlongo, Sandy Dueck, and Katrina Wesencraft. Their…
Vice magazine features work of BAERI researcher Ann Marie Cody
In November 2020, NASA awarded a grant to Ann Marie Cody and Steve Croft, a radio astronomer and a leader of the Breakthrough Listen project at the Berkeley SETI Research Center, to use TESS data to survey the sky for anomalous objects that transit across stars.
NASA honors BAER Institute scientist and alumna
Dr. Zara Mirmalek BAER Institute's Zara Mirmalek has received a 2021 NASA Ames Honors Award, a peer nominated award that is among Ames's most prestigious honors. Dr. Mirmalek is a Co-I on the P-STAR funded BASALT and SUBSEA analog research…
NASA celebrates exoplanet discovery led by BAERI scientist
An international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets orbiting a pair of related young stars (TOI 2076 and TOI 1807) that may give scientists insight into a little-understood stage of planetary evolution. A paper describing the findings, led by…